John Lennon and Yoko Ono autographs Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono autographs for sale

John Lennon and Yoko Ono autographs on a cut piece from the Magical Mystery Tour EP – The Beatles

MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles. The most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a celebrated songwriting partnership. The Beatles members included John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager; his first band, the Quarrymen, evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the group split in 1970, Lennon embarked on a sporadic solo career that produced albums including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as “Give Peace a Chance”; “Working Class Hero”, and “Imagine”. After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean. John lived in the Dakota building at Central Park in New York. He re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release outside his apartment.

By 2012, Lennon’s solo album sales in the United States exceeded 14 million. As the writer, co-writer, or performer, he is responsible for 25 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth and, in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. 1988 as a member of the Beatles and in 1994 as a solo artist.